Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.